> On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Dominique Unruh wrote:
>
> > > Don't we need support for UCS-2 encoded files?
> >
> > UCS-2 encoded TeX code is not feasible, since TeX assumes e.g. that \
> > is a single byte, not a sequence.
>
> My question was rather tricky: I don't think people should bother
> creating something that is already there (viz. Omega)...

as i already said, the reason i want utf8 into latex (rather than
into lambda-or-whatever-it-becomes) is is to deal with a problem we
have *today*.  i believe it's no more than a stopgap, but equally, i
believe it's important.

robin